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So some people have reached out asking me why I left Christianity seeing as I was one of the major Christian Feminists on this streets.
For the record, I have great respect for the work that Christian Feminists are currently doing cause religious patriarchy needs to be removed. https://twitter.com/asangelwassayin/status/1244326553959497729
For the record, I have great respect for the work that Christian Feminists are currently doing cause religious patriarchy needs to be removed. https://twitter.com/asangelwassayin/status/1244326553959497729
I also still believe in God. I just don't subscribe to any particular religion anymore cause most (Abrahamic) religions, are used to divide & are behind most of the world's injustices.
If anything, I take the good I see in any faith system and leave out the rest.
If anything, I take the good I see in any faith system and leave out the rest.
Right now, if at all I have a faith, it's Odinani which is Igbo spirituality.
Moreso, my faith in God is the one that resides in my heart.
I don't feel I need any religious system to tell me how to communicate with my Creator but I respect Odinani a lot.
Moreso, my faith in God is the one that resides in my heart.
I don't feel I need any religious system to tell me how to communicate with my Creator but I respect Odinani a lot.
Funny enough, it was not the Bible's view on gender or sexuality that took me out.
I pretty much had that figured out even though I still in my quiet moments wondered if we could ever see a world free of the violence Christianity perpetuates towards women if the verses remained.
I pretty much had that figured out even though I still in my quiet moments wondered if we could ever see a world free of the violence Christianity perpetuates towards women if the verses remained.
For each homophobic, violence driven verse in the Bible, I always said to myself that there was freedom for all in Christ's death and resurrection.
However, early on in the year following last year when I observed the Busola Dakolo case and also how a girl was expelled,
However, early on in the year following last year when I observed the Busola Dakolo case and also how a girl was expelled,
for a sex tape based on religious grounds, I had a near mental health relapse causing me to lash out on Twitter at some people.
Let me take this opportunity now and apologize to @PaIkhide. It's not everything he says I agree with but I dragged him like hell last year.
Anyway...
Let me take this opportunity now and apologize to @PaIkhide. It's not everything he says I agree with but I dragged him like hell last year.
Anyway...
The incidents on Twitter coupled with how I was bullied last year on here when I defended same sex relationships following @KikiMordi's tweet on homophobia in December,
made me start questioning the efficacy of even Jesus' death and resurrection as a means to social justice.
made me start questioning the efficacy of even Jesus' death and resurrection as a means to social justice.
I asked me five questions,
1. "If Jesus died that all may be free and that paradise be granted to all, why is there still suffering reminiscent of the times before He came?"
2. "Jesus clearly wasn't the only innocent person murdered by the Romans, so what makes Him different?"
1. "If Jesus died that all may be free and that paradise be granted to all, why is there still suffering reminiscent of the times before He came?"
2. "Jesus clearly wasn't the only innocent person murdered by the Romans, so what makes Him different?"
3. "Jesus is not the only one who has had a near death and resurrectory experience contrary to what Christians believe. Lots of ppl even as inauthentic as it sounds have had experiences of dying medically and coming back to life. So what makes it special?"
4. Why should He die?
4. Why should He die?
5. "Are you saying that all the kind hearted atheist friends who are more humane than the Christians I knew, who preached love and tolerance and kept encouraging me last year during the bullying would end up in hell? What about my great grandmother who did not,
accept Christianity cause it was from white people who demeaned her right to exist as a Black woman?
Was the Bible saying that regardless of how Christianity got to you, you had no right to reject it?
Where then is true free will if people are predestined for hell?"
Was the Bible saying that regardless of how Christianity got to you, you had no right to reject it?
Where then is true free will if people are predestined for hell?"
The core beliefs of Christianity state that one has to believe in the death and resurrection of Christ.
As much as I still admire certain things about Jesus, I couldn't ignore the fact that He too was an imperfect character.
There is no rationalization for his encounter with,
As much as I still admire certain things about Jesus, I couldn't ignore the fact that He too was an imperfect character.
There is no rationalization for his encounter with,
the Syro-Phoenician woman. There is no rationalization for flogging people selling in the church if He claimed He was non violent.
If I couldn't agree totally with Jesus and His death which were the core things holding my faith as a feminist Christian,how then wld I navigate?
If I couldn't agree totally with Jesus and His death which were the core things holding my faith as a feminist Christian,how then wld I navigate?
It wasn't only that that got me rethinking Christianity.
Yes I come from a background of women being active in church and holding extremely high positions that ideally would not be given to women in other churches or faith systems.
But I also come from a background of women who,
Yes I come from a background of women being active in church and holding extremely high positions that ideally would not be given to women in other churches or faith systems.
But I also come from a background of women who,
are homophobic and believe in mutual submission or to put it simply "Submit in Love" cause the Bible said so.
Women who are powerful in multiple spheres but at home unconsciously shrink themselves to accomodate a man's ego.
Christianity had a role to play and I couldn't ignore.
Women who are powerful in multiple spheres but at home unconsciously shrink themselves to accomodate a man's ego.
Christianity had a role to play and I couldn't ignore.
This feeling was heightened when a very close feminist friend of mine said she was now against abortion cause of a closer experience with Christianity.
It made me wonder at the many feminist battles we have lost due to religion.
I couldn't keep a faith that blamed Eve,
It made me wonder at the many feminist battles we have lost due to religion.
I couldn't keep a faith that blamed Eve,
and essentially all women for the problem of humanity.
I couldn't keep a faith where rape and violence against women and queer people were casually mentioned.
I couldn't keep a faith that invalidated my existence as a single woman with preachings on pre marital sexual purity.
I couldn't keep a faith where rape and violence against women and queer people were casually mentioned.
I couldn't keep a faith that invalidated my existence as a single woman with preachings on pre marital sexual purity.
Most of all, I couldn't keep a faith whose use I observed in my very before had the ability to transform women I loved into people with no minds of their own, forever waiting for a ring just so they could enjoy sex.
Religion is man made and so can evolve but I'm sincerely tired.
Religion is man made and so can evolve but I'm sincerely tired.
Tbh, Christianity and the exploration of faith would always have a deep interest in my life as a writer seeing a some of my earliest memories revolved around Christmas feasts and Easter fasts.
I respect those who have found some level of peace in it.
That too is valid.
I respect those who have found some level of peace in it.
That too is valid.
Right now, I'm more interested in Odinani and the manner I pray is by writing and muttering soft affirmations to my personal Chi who btw is a woman.
Ever since I began doing this, I've felt a level of peace I haven't had with Christianity and I want that respected.
Thanks.
Ever since I began doing this, I've felt a level of peace I haven't had with Christianity and I want that respected.
Thanks.
